Coach Philip Klett stood, maybe a little dazed, with a smile on his face as he watched his triumphant players talk to the media afterward.

“I’m still numb,” he said. “It’s the dream of any coach to win the whole thing. We’d had some teams that didn’t have the opportunity to get here. We’d had some teams that had the opportunity to get close.”

And now he has this team, which — after its three predecessors lost in the semifinals — beat down the door and won it all.

When it does, she’ll realize her team was the best team in its class. As it turned out, by a wide margin.

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CPU (24-2) won its three games here by an average of 27.7 points. The Stormin’ Pointers started jittery, missing their first three shots from the field, their first four free throws and falling behind, 5-0.

Callyn Fox broke the ice with a 3-pointer, and once the butterflies fled, CPU was unstoppable.

“We stayed as a team,” Madie Willson said. “We stayed positive and had each other’s backs.”

Peyton Kriegel’s 3-pointer gave CPU the lead at 10-8, and the Stormin’ Pointers led the rest of the way. It was 15-8 at the end of the first quarter. Then at 19-14, a 9-0 run opened it up.

CPU led 31-18 at halftime, 44-24 at the end of the third quarter.

Katcher (16 points, nine rebounds, six assists, three blocks) was joined on the all-tournament team by Goebel, a freshman oozing with talent. Goebel was 20 for 24 from the field this week and set a 3A tournament record with 16 steals.

“I’m in complete awe right now,” she said. “I’m so happy we could do this for the seniors. They’ve been working for this for four years. We wanted the title for them so bad.”